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Druce, 40, is already serving a life sentence for killing a man who allegedly made a sexual pass at him after picking Druce up hitchhiking.
Yeah, life in prison without the possibility of parole, that's the ticket. A murderer won't be able to hurt anyone else in prison...
There is only one punishment that prevents a convicted murderer from repeating the crime, and that is execution.
>> There is only one punishment that prevents a convicted murderer from repeating the crime, and that is execution.
especially since prisoners can escape (remember the death
row inmate not long ago who managed to get free--for awhile)
or be pardoned by liberal governors. Druce was able to
commit his crime while IN prison.
But Mass. being Mass., it's unlikely that "Old Sparky"
will be brought back. Even if most people want it back,
the know-it-all legislature finds a way to thwart it.
Boston Globe: "In the aftermath of the Curley killing
(10 yr old boy raped/killed), the House initially approved the death penalty by a single vote then defeated it by the same margin when a single lawmaker -- Peabody Democrat John Slattery -- changed his mind."
That was in 1997. "In 2001, the House revisited the death penalty. By then, the margin of opposition had grown. The House defeated the bill by a 94-60 vote."
Slattery (see above) ran unsuccesfully for mayor of
Peabody, MA. My own little slogan regarding him is
(not flattery, but...) SLATTERY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE.
That's true, although perhaps their should be an exception for murderers who hate child molesters so that they can hang around prison to exact justice on guys like Geoghan.